美语发音视频教程配套文档

Table of Contents

Introduction 01

Session 1R and W (03)

Session 2Voicing, S and Z (08)

Session 3TH, Voiced T (11)

Session 4 F and V, Sh and Voiced SH (15)

Session 5L (20)

Session 6W ord Endings (24)

Session 7DG and Ch, H (27)

Session 8Vowel Overview, I and EE (32)

Session 9OW and AE (35)

Session 10OO, UH, EH (38)

Session 11AU, AH, A (41)

Session 12T ongue Twisters (44)

Session 13Phrase Reductions, Intonation (46)

Session 14Reading Passages (50)

Session 15Reading Passages (52)

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I n T r o d u C T I o n

Welcome!

Congratulations! Y ou are about to embark on a very exciting program. Learning

to speak English clearly, with proper pronunciation is the single most important

skill you must have to communicate effectively in today’s world market. The

Pronunciation W orkshop Video Training Program will enhance your English

speaking abilities and vocal skills, improve your self-confidence and will greatly

increase your chances for success.

This course is based on years of linguistic research and has produced dramatic

results for thousands of individuals around the globe. It is designed to help you

sound “more American” for oral presentations, interviews, teaching, business

situations, telephone conversations and general daily communication.

When a person learns English as a Second Language, they are speaking English

“filtered”through their first language. They are using their native language’s

“speech rules” of pronunciation (and often grammar) on their new language…

They are not aware of the American set of “speech rules”. This is basically what

the Pronunciation W orkshop program teaches you… “The Speech Rules of

American English”.

There are many schools and classes which teach English all around the world;

however, very few of them address the “speech rules” that you will learn in this

course. This is because many of the teachers who are providing English training,

do not know of these “speech rules”. Many of them are even making errors

themselves and teaching them to you! W e hear this daily from our clients.

When you were a child and learned your first language, you constructed a mental

inventory of your native language’s speech sounds. Those sounds became a part

of your speech repertoire. Unfortunately, you are now inserting these speech

sounds into your English. T oday, when you speak English, you reach into that

inventory and come out with many substitute sounds, something that is close,

but nonetheless incorrect. These repeated errors in conversation often cause you

to be misunderstood.

Some people call what we do “Foreign Accent Reduction”…this is not quite

accurate, for you are not reducing your foreign accent...you are actually gaining

an American Accent - - you are adding new sounds and new “speech rules” to

your speech inventory.

While you progress through this program, you will be learning things you were

never aware of before. Y ou most likely will find yourself saying, “W ow! I never